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andra started FKC back in 2003. She ws invited to attend a friend's wedding in Nairobi, in March 2006. Eldoret was just a short trip away so she was able to visit and see the work for herself. It has proved invaluable as she has been able to say, “this is what I saw and experienced” on many occasions since then. Here are some of her thoughts on that time.

Eldoret and the school

spent a week with the pastor and his family, visited the Eldoret school, saw something of the slum area in which he works and met the people in his church who, out of their own poverty, help to support the orphaned children from Lodwar. I was warmly received everywhere. It was quite something to have the little ones in the nursery stroke my arms gently to see whether this funny colour came off. It was a joy to play singing games in school playtime and to hear energetic young voices commanding, “form a circle, she said” and laughing as they bobbed up and down in time to the music. “Your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends” took on a whole new significance that day. And it was a nostalgic reminder of times past when each class stood politely when I went into the room, said “Good morning, Visitor” and sat down to get on with the work.



t was a salutary reminder of why I was there, to see little fingers struggling with stumps of pencils that we would have discarded long before, and to realise that the teacher had just one textbook from which to work so that everything had to be copied for the children. Resources were very, very limited; the exercise books in use were those sent out in our container, as were most of the clothes the children wore. But the enthusiasm for school, the wish to learn, the determination of the teachers, themselves out of work and lending a hand in return for minimal sponsorship from here, to do their best for the children. These things were tangible and wonderful. “How can we not see this project through to completion?” I thought as I came away.